June-July 2007

The project features works of art in which Yiddish constitutes a central tenant. Through the use of Yiddish the art works ask questions about the crystallisation of personal identity in relation to language and about the relationship between the language and place. The artists’ treatment  of the language is intimate yet at the same time political. All participating artists are closely involved with the Yiddish language, and which has been present in their work, in one form or another, for many years.

The project features works by the following artists:

Ariela Plotkin

Ariel Yanai-shani

Doron Lackman

Dov Seltzer & Avraham Sutzkever

Hadas Ophrat

Haim Maor-Moscovitch

Ilan Grin

Michal Spektor

Moshe Gershuni

Rachel Kainy

Salamanca group (Diego Rotman and Lea Mauas)

Yifat Lajst (curator)



The project has been made possible through generous support of

- Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs

- Embassy of Israel, Warsaw, Poland

- Lerner Fund for Yiddish, Israel

- Mifa’al Ha’pais culture council, Israel

- Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland